Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister (2002)

Wow! Such a good movie.

Fresh and Exciting

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

There are moments that feel comical, some horrific, and some downright inspiring but the tonal shifts hardly matter as the end results come to a film that's perfect for this time.

In many ways a neat adaptation, but the whole thing is marred by a blunt , utilitarian script (characters may as well introduce themselves by listing their name, occupation and role that they're about to play in the story) that could perhaps have been saved by some truly spectacular acting and directing, but sadly that's not on display here.This also features a rather weird eleventh-hour introduction of magic into what had up until then been a realist piece. The finale is also very abrupt (an unfortunate carry-over from the novel, though) and seems to miss the apparent moral: that it's Clara's act of charity that finally makes her truly beautiful.Decent and certainly watchable, but still, I hope that Wicked receives a better treatment when it is ultimately adapted.

I enjoyed this movie a lot. I always thought the original was a little dull, so when they changed a few things up, it was interesting to see what the producers came up with. I did find "Cinderella" (clara) very annoying at the beginning of the movie though. Yes it was obvious she was gorgeous but she didn't have to rub it in people's noses like that. It felt like throughout half the movie, Cinderella was playing the bad guy and the two stepsisters (who weren't even ugly) were the good guys......But overall, I loved every bit of it, it's like the narrator said in the end...."though the story may not be as magical, in the end, it's far more beautiful." something like that! :)

Though it been a while since I've seen the movie, I loved how it gave a different twist on an old story. Cinderella only gave one point of view, and a very biased one that that. "Confessions..." gives another, perhaps more true view of what it was like to be the sister of the prettiest girl ever... and how pretty can sometimes be only skin deep.Makes me want to read the book!

Enjoyable all the same. Casting was wonderful, though the ugly Iris, wasn't even plain. Stockard Channing was much more sympathetic than her literary counterpart, not too surprising considering this had to be Disneyfied. Wonderful sets and costumes, fun twists and turns. Clara (Cinderella) is terrifically unsympathetic through the first half. Her "fairy" godmother was not what one would expect either. All in all Emma Poole really steals the show as the slow-witted, but loving Ruth.